Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,392, David Downs, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Downs David
S 17392
Carded
CONTENTS

Order to pay
1. Nov. 1838.
22989
Connecticut
David Downs
Waterbury in the State of Conn who was a Private in the Conn commanded by Captain Horn of the Regt commanded by _____ in the Conn troops time for 1 yr 19 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of $5 Dollars 43 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Decr 1830 and Decr. N. Smith Senate W.P.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1831 $113.57 Sem-ant. allowance ending Sept. 4, 1831 22.71 $136.28
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. Bullock Clerk Book E Vol. 13 Page 11

State of Connecticut,
County of New Haven } ss. District of Waterbury
On this 12 th day of February 1833 personally appeared, in open Court, before
The Probate Court for the District of Waterbury at Waterbury in New Haven County and said District
now sitting,
David Loons a resident of
Waterbury in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged Seventy two years, who being first sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
First Service
In the month of Dec 1776 he enlisted under Capt Samuel Osborn & Lieut Joseph Loeman the Ensign name he has forgotten Samuel Allen was a Sergeant the Company he enlisted for three months immediately after he enlisted he was marched to the Saw Mill in the State of New York & from there to North Castle N.Y. State and there with the rest of Capt Osborn company he was stationed to guard the Mills and remained there in that service until the month of February 1777 There was no other Company there during the time he remained there he was never attached to any Regt during this service and of course can not state any other Officers than those of Capt Allen company as there were no others there In Feb 1777 fifteen twenty of Capt Osborns Company of whom he was one were ordered on board of a Schooner in the service of the State of Connecticut commanded by Capt White she was called the Mifflin & was employed cruising in L Island Sound the latter part of this service the Mifflin lay Stamford blockaded by a British 74 He was discharged from this service in March 1777 Benj Smith was Lieut on board the Mifflin & Thos Tison was Boatwain The said Applicant says that from old age & the constant loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise time of the above service nor can he state the day of the month in Dec 1776 when he enlisted nor the day in March 1777 when he was discharged but he knows that this service was not less than three months
3 Months

2 Service
In June 1777 He turned out as a volunteer under Capt Capt Mallett Lieut Canfield he thinks his men was he belonged to Derby County Ensign Lazarus Sells He volunteered as master to Ensign Sells but immediately after he joined the Company Sergeant, Hotchkiss who belonged to the Company wishing to leave the service hered him to take his Sergeant Hotchkiss place which he did with the concurrence of the other officers of the Company He did this service at Milford Connecticut and the duty of the Company was to keep guard on the shore He was not attached to any Regt that he knows of as there were no other soldiers at the place where he was stationed except Capt Malletts Company and he neither saw any other officers than those of the Company in which he served nor knew of any except the Government of the State & the United States & whether the Company did belong to any Regt he can not say. He can not remember from his old age & the consequent loss of memory & from the time which has elapsed since this service was done never positively as to the precise length of this service or the day of the month when he commenced the service but he can now & does know that He served this time not up then three months as a Sergeant though he had no warrant but was a substitute for Sergeant Hotchkiss as he is herein before stated He was dismissed in Sept. 17, the precise day of the month he can not say
3 Months
3 Service
In the year 1778 In the spring of 1 st year He again Volunteered as a private Soldier under Capt Silas Kimberly & Ensign Samuel Huggins and went in the Company of Capt Kimberly & under his orders to West Haven now called Orange near New Haven Connecticut and did service there as a private Soldier three months
3 Months

His duty and the duty of Capt Kimberly's company was to keep guard on the shore there were no other soldiers stationed there at the time he did this service & Capt Kimberly had no superior Officer there & whether his company belonged to any Regt he does not know & can not say He can not wear as to the precise time he entered Capt Kimberly's company as from old age & the consequent loss of memory he can not precisely remember but he does know that he served this time not up than three months as he has above stated
4th Interrog In the spring of the year 1779 according to the best of his recollection but he can not certainly remember the year His brother Joseph Downs belonged to the Nuttall company in New Haven that part which is now Woodbridge & was drafted out of said company to go to Derby to guard some stores of provisions that were there & to prevent depredations from the British from Long Island The Applicant says that he went as his brother's substitute in this in this service & at said Derby Connecticut he served under Capt Jesse Ford & Lieut John Dibble he has forgotten the Ensign's name there was no other company of soldiers there except Capt Ford's & the applicant can not from old age from old age & the consequent loss of memory wear as to the precise

3 Months
length of this Service nor as to the precise time when he entered said service more particularly than is above stated but he can now well know that he was in this Service for a period of not less than three months He knows that this Service was done in the Spring of the year from the fact that it was a hard time when he was at Derby He remembers that Dayton's store at New Haven that part which is now Brittony was robbed by a party of Tories from Long Island while he was out there.
5 Service
In July the beginning of the month & the same year that New Haven was taken & Fairfield & Norwalk burned he turned out under Capt Samuel Osborn Lieut Perkins & Col Ensign & went first to New Haven met the enemy at Millford Hill retreated before to a place then called Bradley Town now called Westville where the Militia made a little stand and exchanged fire with them but were soon driven into New Haven which the enemy took & partially plundered & burned some stores on the wharf the next day he followed them to Fairfield & from there to Norwalk both which places they burned and he says that from old age & the consequent loss of memory he can not swear as to the precise length of this service but from his best recollection it was not less than one week
1 week 6 Service
In the fall of the same year Capt Samuel Osborn's Company the same company last above mentioned was again called out & the applicant as one of the Company went & kept guard on the wharf at New Haven He can not from old age & the consequent loss of memory swear positively as to

The precise length of this term but he can swear as does know that this term was not up then six
6 weeks
weeks and he says that there was no other company of soldiers at New Haven and that Capt Osborn had no inferior officers there and of course he does not know any other officers in the region
7th Summer
In the year 1780 according to his best recollection though from old age & the consequent loss of memory he can not remember precisely as to the time but as he thinks in the fourth of the summer of that year he again volunteered & joined Capt Caleb Mix's company in a Regt commanded by Col Increase Mosley and was marched to White Plains in said Capt Mix's company & when there joined said Colonel Mosley's Regt. and remained at said White Plains a few days not over a fortnight at White Plains He saw Genl Washington and a considerable portion of the continental army
42 7

He thinks he heard at the time that then the were 18,000 men in the Army then. said Army with Genl Washington come then he thinks the day before Col Mosleys Regt left them from then he marched with Col Mosleys Regt to West Point and was then employed in building fort Putnam he thinks Genl Putnam commanded or had a command at West Point. He worked at said fort for about two months & there he was employed on board of a boat or lighter on the river carrying transporting timber & guns up & down the River took a load of guns that had been spiked by the British from a redoubt near Newberg or when it now is and transported them to Poughkeepsie to be boarded out and from so redoubt or from some barracks which had not been burned by the enemy but timber to the Point. He can not from old age & the consequent loss of memory swear positively as to the exact length

this known but from his best recollection he served this town not up than five
5 Mo
Best evidence
Recapitulation
months - The applicant further states that he has no documentary evidence of his service and that except the dis- charges he unto annexed he knows of no evidence he can produce in relation to his service or any part of it. And the Applicant further states that from old age & the consequent loss of memory he can not recall positively as to the precise length of his service but from his best recollection he served not up than the period mentioned below & in the following grades - for three months I served as a private at Sawmills & on board the Miffin for three months I served as a soldier sergeant at Milford under Capt. Mallon for three months I served as a private under Capt. Kimberly for three months I served as a private under Capt. Ford for one week I served as a private under Capt. Osborn & for 6 weeks I served as a private under the same Capt. Osborn and for five months I served as a private under Capt. Mix in Col. Morris's Regt. & for much service I claim a pension
To the Interrogatories prescribed by the regulations from the war depart- ment the answers to the first

That he was born in that part of New Haven which is now Woodbridge Sept 1760
To the 2 nd That he supposes there is a record of his age at the New Haven Town Clerks Office but does not know whether there is or not & that unless there is he has no record of his age
To the 3 rd That he resided in that part of New Haven which is now Woodbridge when called into the service that he resided there until about the year 1786 when he removed to Milbraham Massachusetts resided there until about 1790 then moved back to Woodbridge & resided there until 1806 when he removed to Watbury New Haven County Court where he has resided ever since & where he now lives.
To the 4 th He answers that he has stated in his declaration above how he was called into the service
To the 5 th He answers that he has stated in his declaration above the names of such officers as he remembers & such continental Rights as he recollects & other Rights & the general cir- cumstances of his service
To the 6 th He answers that he never did receive a discharge
To the 7 th He answers that he is acquainted with the Rev. Job R. Arnold

I saw Waterbury & with John Kingsbury Esq. of the same place. Who can testify to his character for veracity & then belief of his veracity as a soldier the resolution
The said David Downs hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
David Downs
We, Joel R Arnold a clergyman, residing in the town of Watbury and John Kingsbury residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with David Downs who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
in Open Court Joel R. Arnold John Kingsbury
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joel R. Arnold who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Watbury and that John Kingsbury who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Watbury and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Robinson S. Hinman Clerk of the Court of Probate in & for said District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Downs for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of this 1 day of April 1833
Office,
R. S. Hinman Clerk

Cour
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. P.L. 17392 David Downs
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Dec. 1776 to Feb 1777 Private Samuel Osborn Conn   Feb 1777 to Mar 1777 White, on Schooner Mifflin "   June 1777 3 mos. Sgt. Keallet "   Spring 1778 3 mos. Private Silas Timberley "   * Spring 1779 3 mos. " Jesse Ford "   July 1779 1 week Samuel Osborn "   Fall 1779 6 wks. Samuel Osborn "   Summer 1780 6 mos. Caleb Moir Decease Moseley "  
* Sub for his brother Joseph -
Battles engaged in, burning of Fairfield Barracks and New Haven
Residence of soldier at enlistment, at birthplace.
Date of application for pension, Feb 14, 1833 His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Waterbury New Haven Co., Conn.
Age at date of application Born Sept 1760 in that part of New Haven which was
Remarks: afterwards called Woodbridge Conn No data as to family

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
May 27, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning David Downs, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on February 14, 1833, at which time he was 72 years of age and residing at Waterbury, Conn., and his pension was allowed for thirteen months and nineteen days' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Osborn. Place of his enlistment not stated. An examination of the papers on file in his claim for pension fails to show date of birth and death. The date of his death, however, can probably be obtained upon application to the Hon. Auditor for the Interior Department, Treasury Department, this city, giving the soldier full name and record as above set forth together with the following data: Cert. No. 22989; Conn. Agency; Act of June 7, 1832.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Miss Jane Downs Lormore,
81 State St., Seneca Falls, N. Y.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 17392.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
May 27, 1897.
Madam:-
Replying to your request for information concerning David Downs, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on February 14, 1833, at which time he was 72 years of age and residing at Waterbury, Conn., and his pension was allowed for thirteen months and nineteen days' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Osborn. Place of his enlistment not stated. The papers on file in his claim for pension fail to show dates of birth and death.
The date of his death, however, can probably be obtained upon application to the Hon. Auditor for the Interior Department, Treasury Department, this city, giving the soldier's full name and record as above, together with the following data: Cert. No. 22989; Conn. Agency; Act of June 7, 1832.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Miss Elizabeth Cowing, 24 E. Bayard St., Seneca Falls, N. Y.

Wangatuck, Conn Oct. 5-1910
Commissioner of Pension Dept. Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Would you kindly send me a copy of David Adams pension paper who fought in the Revolution.
It is on the Connecticut Pension roll Dec. 28, 1833
An Q Hidge
Mrs Andrew Hine
84 Highland Ave
Wangatuck
Conn.
OCT 8 - 1910

O. B. N. 1897

D Seneca Falls N.Y.
May 8. 1897.
The U.S. Pension Dept. -
Is there in your books any record of the birth and death of the Revolutionary Soldier David Downs .
I find in the Conn. Men of the Revolution that he was a pen- sioner in New Haven in 1832.

I am very anxious for the date of his birth and death or any other facts which I can receive. Anything in connection with him will be very grate- fully received.
Respectfully I am Downey Forman 81 State Street. Seneca Falls, N.Y.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier David Downs
Service Co. A. V.
Additional Service Rev. War
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No claim except Invd. # 17392

OLD WAR & NAVY MAY 15 1897 FILES.

24. E. Bayard St. Seneca Falls 5-10-1897-
Pension Office. D
David Downs , a pensioner of the War of the Revolution" from Connecticut - resided in New Haven, 1832. was born at Southport, Ct. I would like the date of birth and death if its there. - address -
Miss Elizabeth Browning 24. E. Bayard St. Seneca Falls New York

tory to -320 e. Tenn- 1
17 392 INVALID.
ryeto Lormore g Falls, NY. owing streft York.
Re No. 17 392 Daria Downs Pr Rev War Act: June 7 th 89 Index: Vol. 1 , Page 101
[Arrangement of 1870.]
March 30. 1897. His Mrs. J. H. Maddin 4. Vine st. Washoe (see Inv. 33068)
May 27. 1897 Histo Miss Miss Jane D. 81 State st. Seneca and Miss Elizabeth L 24 East Bayard - Seneca Falls, New
1908 Aug. 5. Hist. to Mrs. E. K. Bristol. A.P. letter in B.F. 106-84
1910 Oct. 12 Hist. to Mrs. Andrew Stine. V.L.R.

State of Connecticut } B. Bethany County of New Haven
On this 3 rd day of August 1832 personally appeared before me Alvan Sperry Justice of the Peace for New Haven County - Ezra Kimberly aged 69 years a resident of the Town of Bethany lately part of the Town of Woodbridge in the County of New Haven & being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that he volunteered as a private & joined a company of Militia under Capt Silas Kimberly & Ensign Samuel Muggins & went to the Parish of West Haven in said County of New Haven to keep guard along shore & prevent the depredations of the British & Tories from Long Island - That we went in the Spring or for part of Summer & continued in service about three Months Deponent thinks that the time was about 1778 Deponent says that he has long been acquainted with David Downs now a resident of Waterbury in the County of New Haven at that time a resident of the parish of Ansonia in New Haven in the County since a part of the Town of Woodbridge & remembers that David Downs served as a private in the company the whole of the time that the company was out - and further saith not Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Sworn before me
Ezra Kimberly ✓
Alvan Sperry Justice Peace for New Haven County
I certify that Ezra Kimberly who signed the above deposition in my presence is a credible witness and a respectable man Alvan Sperry Justice Peace

I Isaac Northrop of Woodbridge in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut being of lawful age deposeth and saith that I enlisted under Samuel Osborn Capt Joseph Loveeman Lieut. for the term of three months on or about the last of the year 1776- or the first of the year 1777 that I marched into the state of New York to the sawpits. then to North castle to guard Mills and other property and some time in February 1777 went on board an armed vessel commanded by Capt White and there served till the expiration of enlistment, being three months, in the service of the United States. the deponant further saith that David Downs served with sd deponant in the same company and on board the same vessel during the above term and further certify that sd the deponant and hold a pension under the act of Congress passed in the 1818 and further the deponant saith not
Isaac Northrop
County of New Haven ss Woodbridge August 13 th A D 1832 personally appeared Isaac Northrop who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition and after being examined and cautioned to speak the whole truth, made solemn oath to the same deposition, before me
John Northrop Justice of the Peace
I certify that Isaac Northrop who subscribed the foregoing deposition is a man of creditability
John Northrop Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut County of New Haven ss. New Haven Feb. 10 th 1833 I Mr Beach Clerk of the County Court in & for S d New Haven County, hereby certify that Alvan Sperry & John Northrop are & have been respectively for more than one year last past Justices of the peace in & for S d New Haven County duly qualified to administer oaths, & that their respec- tive signatures to the foregoing affidavits are their genuine sig- natures -
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County Court this day & date above written J. W. Beach Clerk

State of Connecticut County of New Haven } ss. New Haven
On this 31 st day of July, 1832, personally appeared before me Noyes Darling, a Judge of the County Court for said County, of New Haven, Bezaleel Peck, aged 71 years, a resident of the town of Bethany, lately part of the town of Woodbridge in said County, of New Haven, and being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that he volunteered as a private, and joined a company of Militia under Capt. Jesse Ford, Lieut. John Dibble, and went to Derby in said County, of New Haven, to guard some stores of provisions, & to prevent depredations of the British & Tories from Long Island - that we went in the spring or fore part of summer, and continued in service about three months. Deponent cannot remember what year it was; he can only state that it was the same summer that Dayton's store was robbed by a company of Tories, who were taken on the shore of Long Island by Capt. Elderkin. Deponent should think it was the 3 d or 4 th year of the revolutionary war. Deponent says that he has long been acquainted with David Downs, now a resident of Waterbury in said County, of New Haven, at that time a resident of the parish of Trinity in New Haven in said County, since a part of the town of Woodbridge, and remembers that said Downs served as a private in said company, the whole of the time that the company was out, and further saith not. Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Noyes Darling - Judge of the County Court for New Haven Bezaleel Peck ✓

State of Connecticut } County of New Haven } p. New Haven January 17 th 1833.
I Noyes Darling Judge of the County Court for said County of New Haven, hereby certify that Bezaleel Peck and Job Sheedy, whose depositions have been taken and sworn to before me, as to their knowledge of the service of David Downs in the Revolutionary War, are personally known to me, and that they are credible persons, & that their statements are entitled to full faith & credit.
Noyes Darling, Judge of the County Court for the County of New Haven.

David Downs Application for a pension
9086 2271 113.57
13. mo 19 days
Last term not allowed being so proof of from natural service stated quite doubtful
As Mr. Smith requests the attention of Mr. Edwards to think of him as soon as into doubt his uncertainty - & then communicate the report
1333 216 45-45
Hon. N. Smith Senate U.S.

State of Connecticut } ss. New Haven. County of New Haven }
On this 27 th day of July 1832 personally appeared before me Noyes Darling, Chief Judge of the County Court for New Haven County, Job Sperry a resident of New Haven in said County of New Haven, known to me as a person of veracity, and having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that he has long known David Downs, now residing in Waterbury in said County of New Haven, formerly in that part of New Haven which is now in the town of Woodbury. That when the Militia were called on a drafted to go to Derby, to guard the stores of Provisions, (in which year he cannot state), said David Downs, went with the same company to which deponent belonged, under Cpt. Jesse Ford, John Dibble lieut. and served with the company about three months. deponent believes a little over that time. said Downs served as a private. Deponent further says that he believes, but cannot positively say, that said Downs, some time about the middle of the war, served as a volunteer about two months, under Cpt. Daniel Holbrook, Amos Perkins lieut. at the time they went to Stratford & Green's farms, and further with etc.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Noyes Darling Chief Judge of the County Court for New Haven County
Job his Sperry mark

State of Connecticut, county of New Haven ss. New Haven July 27 th 1832. I J. W. Beach Clerk of the county court in & for said New Haven county & keeper of the records thereof, do certify that Hon. Noyes Darling whose name is above & foregoing written & subscribed is (Chief Judge) of the county court for New Haven county & duly qualified to administer Oaths. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said county court the day & date above written
Attest J. W. Beach (Clerk)